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While mayor of Cambridge in 1952-1953, DeGuglielmo successfully defended several Harvard undergraduates jailed during the famous Pogo riots, and he has been known as one of the University's stanchest friends on the Council. Under Cambridge's city-manager system of government, the Councillors elect one of their number mayor, the office being largely ceremonial...
...Cheng, the Vice President and Premier of Nationalist China, flew into Washington's MATS terminal one day last week, the capital simmered in tropical 90° heat. But more than the weather had Chen warm under the collar. After years of concord, relations between the U.S. and her stanchest Pacific ally seemed to be falling into disturbing disarray...
...example, we have promised to keep you posted (and have kept you posted) on such news stories as the rat-race in Spain and how Franco's stanchest supporters are getting set to run out on him . . . on the latest tricks of the U-boat packs that may mean rising losses on the Atlantic again ... on the nervous lootings of Britain's shipping magnates at the prospect of a big, permanent U.S. merchant fleet ... on the strength of Lord Louis Mountbatten's command in Southeast Asia and the signs that action over there cannot be far away...
...Moslems, 27% Hindu, 13% warrior Sikhs-into a coalition Government which brought internal peace to the Province and has raised 500,-ooo troops to fight the Axis. Last week, at Lahore, the fruitful work of Sir Sikander was ended: a sudden heart attack brought death to Britain's stanchest friend in India...
California (44): "Even Willkie's stanchest supporters here concede that he would have trouble winning the nomination again. Said one of them this week: 'Frankly, I'm disappointed in Willkie. He seems to have everything that it takes to win the Presidency, but he also seems to lack the special kind of leadership ability that would make his election possible. When the last campaign was over, he had an army of 22,000,000 to help him fight for his cause. But he walked off the field and left them. If he had kept his organization together...